Description
The poems in Earth's Almanac emerged over a fifteen-year period following the untimely death of the poet's sister. Lucy Newlyn adapts the tradition of the 'Shepherd's Calendar' to the phases of grief, condensing a long process of reflection and remembering into the passage of a single year. The poems shift through forms and move between places - Oxford, Borrowdale, and finally Cornwall, where the poet finds a second home near the sea. In these intense expressions of love and loss, anger and guilt, there is no smooth path towards consolation.
About the Author
Lucy Newlyn was born in Uganda, grew up in Leeds, and read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is now Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. She has published widely on English Romantic Literature, including three books with Oxford University Press, and the Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Her book Reading Writing and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (O.U.P, 2000) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2001. Her first collection Ginnel (Carcanet) was published in 2005. She lives in Oxford.
Reviews
'Don't doubt that this is very good poetry indeed ... If you require a nostalgic hit of childhood and place, the ingredients which make this collection universal, it is here for you.' - The Leeds Guide on GINNEL; 'It's a long time since a book of poetry moved me as much as Lucy Newlyn's Earth's Almanac (Enitharmon). She has grafted a sequence of elegies for and rememberings of a dead sister over a fifteen year period onto a Shepheard's Calendar of the natural year. This could lead to mawkishness and sentimentality, but Earth's Almanac is tough and complex. Often it is impossible to tell if the details of the changing seasons in Cornwall and Oxford, where the poet lives, are the occasions or the metaphors for memory. I loved it.'- Gabriel Josipovici, TLS
Book Information
ISBN 9781910392102
Author Lucy Newlyn
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Enitharmon Press
Publisher Enitharmon Press
Weight(grams) 159g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 21mm
About the Author
Lucy Newlyn was born in Uganda, grew up in Leeds, and read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is now Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. She has published widely on English Romantic Literature, including three books with Oxford University Press, and the Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Her book Reading Writing and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (O.U.P, 2000) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2001. Her first collection Ginnel (Carcanet) was published in 2005. She lives in Oxford.
Reviews
'Don't doubt that this is very good poetry indeed ... If you require a nostalgic hit of childhood and place, the ingredients which make this collection universal, it is here for you.' - The Leeds Guide on GINNEL; 'It's a long time since a book of poetry moved me as much as Lucy Newlyn's Earth's Almanac (Enitharmon). She has grafted a sequence of elegies for and rememberings of a dead sister over a fifteen year period onto a Shepheard's Calendar of the natural year. This could lead to mawkishness and sentimentality, but Earth's Almanac is tough and complex. Often it is impossible to tell if the details of the changing seasons in Cornwall and Oxford, where the poet lives, are the occasions or the metaphors for memory. I loved it.'- Gabriel Josipovici, TLS
Book Information
ISBN 9781910392102
Author Lucy Newlyn
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Enitharmon Press
Publisher Enitharmon Press
Weight(grams) 159g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 21mm
